by Financial Minds | Aug 5, 2025 | Interviews, Strategy & Leadership
Cristina Teixeira, the CFO of Spur Corporation, remembers standing on stage presenting company results to a room full of analysts at Sandton Convention Centre when she spotted her mother at the back. It was a lovely surprise. Although her mother had no understanding...
by Financial Minds | Jul 27, 2025 | Interviews, Strategy & Leadership
It was the sort of aspirational daydream most young South Africans might have indulged in at one point or another—except Patricia Stock wasn’t just indulging. She was observing, absorbing, already co-authoring the script of a life that had not yet begun. Prior to...
by Financial Minds | Jun 25, 2025 | IFRS
In many corporate groups, it is common for a parent company to support its subsidiaries by issuing financial guarantees to lenders. These guarantees reduce the credit risk faced by the lender, often enabling the subsidiary to borrow at more favourable terms. While...
by Financial Minds | Jun 24, 2025 | Interviews
In the small town of Mthatha, Mark Nasila enrolled at Walter Sisulu University, beginning what would become a lifelong entanglement with data—first through a degree in computer science and statistics, and then, further afield, into a realm where numbers began to speak...
by Financial Minds | Jun 4, 2025 | Interviews, Strategy & Leadership
When Tendani Sikhwivhilu reflects on the high and low points of his career, he finds it difficult to pinpoint them. It’s not that he hasn’t faced challenges or celebrated victories — it’s just that, for him, they are often intertwined. Tendani has always been driven...
